23rd roar [ text ]; backdated to the morning of the 24th

[adamant]

[ Guess who saw the feed first thing upon waking and nearly flipped his shit? Yep. He flips it open to make some calls. ]

The empty base, and now this. Whatever it is they've got planned, it'll be best to stay on our guard.


[Private voicemail to: Cooper, Cooper, Sora, Ventus, Xion, Rise, Kisa, Nanako, Cecil, Yuffie:]
You're not hurt, are you? [ It's probably a good thing they can't see how worried he is. Suddenly--ping! ]

Error: user ID 'Yuffie Kisaragi' not found_

[ That's an unpleasant surprise. He checks his pokemon box--and finds Zuzu, looking forlorn. ]

[ Public text message sent out about an hour later: ]
If you knew Yuffie Kisaragi, she's been sent home.

[ He's just going to spend the rest of the day being grumpy and frustrated and torn between flying out to Goldenrod and staying on course to Blackthorn. ]

Comments

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[adamant]

You're not the only one. The only thing still up and running at the base was the science division...looks like more Tarantulas on the horizon. Or worse.

[ Not a comforting thought. Hide yo pokemon, hide yo frans, etc. ]

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[skillspanner]

that was the guy with the creepy bug fetish rite?

dammit

these jerks need to be stopped
this is way 2 out of ctrl now

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[adamant]

'Bug fetish' is an interesting way to put it, but yes.

I'm not sure if there is a way to stop them. Maybe before, when they were relatively smaller, and less dangerous. They've obviously strengthened their infrastructure, if they can pull off something this big.

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[skillspanner]

well he was a total freak about it...

but
theres gotta B a way
if a single trainer culd beat them in the game
theres gotta be SOME way a bunch of us could...

these bastards cant keep getting away with this crap

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[adamant]

This isn't a game, though. These are real people, with real lives to protect. I'm not saying it's impossible; I'm saying that if an attempt is going to be made, we'll need to get craftier and more proactive than we've been so far. We've gotten complacent.

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[skillspanner]

NOT arguin that
but alot of this stuff is still like the game nd a lot of the weirdo rockets R still NPCs
there DEF a way 2 stop them
we just gotta figure out the best way 2 do it

its hard 2 tell whos rocket nd whos not so i mean
it would hav 2 B done rly carefully
its easy 2 get complacent or w/e when they were pretT quiet 4 a loooong time so once we get a plan?

we can take those bastards down 4 sure!!

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[adamant]

We don't even know where their current main hideout is. I'm not dumb enough to think the Radio Tower has nothing to do with it, but with the numbers they have, they could be all over the place. Chances are if we smoke them out of one rat hole, they'll just move somewhere else and recoup. We need to cut off the head and hope two more don't grow back.

[ Oh and-- ]

What's an 'NPC'?

[ This is so meta I don't even Leon, an NPC is YOU ]

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[skillspanner]

no i agree with u dude
honestly i dont even think with somethin as big as them that theres just 1 hideout neways? but dealin w/ all the small frys wont do us much good either
dont kno how exactly we can do it yet but takin them down from the isnide and figuring out whos in charge nd how they do stuff
i think if theres a way 2 do that we can kick there asses

[And then, after a second.]

THEIR** not there oops

and NPCs = non player characters
basically all the "native" i guess is wat they would count as in johto and kanto

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[adamant]

[ lmao Yosuke....what an incredibly random thing to correct... ]

It might be possible, if there was an inside agent, but finding one willing to help up, when we've seen how hard they crack down on their members, might be hard.

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[skillspanner]

[He doesn't want to look THAT stupid, okay...]

tru
it never hurts to keep an eye or ear out or w/e just in case

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[adamant]

Then we'll both do that. I'm not trying to be defeatist--just realistic.

[ ooc: totally derped on the fact they went raiding together. woops. ]

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[skillspanner]

nah i figured that much
i TOTALLY get it man